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1955 planning map for Detroit's Interstate Highways. I-696 is part of the original Interstate Highway System as outlined in 1956–58. [15] As originally proposed by the Michigan State Highway Department, the freeway would have been numbered I-98. [16] Construction started in 1961. [17]
Augustus Woodward's plan following the 1805 fire for Detroit's baroque styled radial avenues and Grand Circus Park.. Following a historic fire in 1805, Judge Augustus B. Woodward devised a plan similar to Pierre Charles L'Enfant's design for Washington, D.C. Detroit's monumental avenues and traffic circles fan out in a baroque-styled radial fashion from Grand Circus Park in the heart of the ...
The plans at the time were to extend the freeway west one mile to Mound Road and then have it continue south along the Mound Road corridor into Detroit to connect with the Davison Freeway and I-96. [22] [23] Construction started on the Romeo Bypass in 1989. [24] [25] Completed in 1992, the bypass extended a two-lane expressway to 34 Mile Road.
The construction of the freeway partitioned communities in half and by 1950, 423 single family residences, 109 businesses, 22 manufacturing plants, and 93 vacant lots had been condemned. By 1958, from its terminus in downtown Detroit to Wyoming Ave (about seven miles [11 km]), 2,222 more buildings had been destroyed. [24]
Private construction companies built roads starting in 1844 to fill the void in long-distance road construction left by the departure of the federal government. [40] The first roads were corduroy roads; to build these, logs of all sizes were placed across the road. The gaps between the logs were filled in with smaller logs or earth.
Gratiot Avenue, then also called Detroit–Port Huron Road, [17] was authorized by the US Congress on March 2, 1827, as a supply road from Detroit to Port Huron for Fort Gratiot. Construction started in Detroit in 1829, and the roadway was completed in the same year to Mount Clemens. The rest was finished in 1833. [19]
M-39 was reassigned to Southfield Road, which parallels Schaefer Highway two miles (3.2 km) to the west, connecting I-94 with Northwestern Highway in 1958-59. [2] [3] By 1961, the freeway was marked as under construction on maps. [20] The first section opened in December 1961 was 2.7 miles (4.3 km) from Ford Road north to Chicago Road.
When the Detroit–Toledo Freeway opened in 1956, several local roads were given the M-85 designation between the new freeway in Woodhaven into downtown Detroit to end at US 25/M-17. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The northern end was truncated in 1968 to the interchange with I-75 in Detroit when that freeway was completed in the area.